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9/11

After increased pressure from both North Korea and the United States government, Sony has officially decided to pull all showings of the upcoming Seth Rogen and James Franco movie The Interview from theaters until further notice.

This week, official representatives for the NATO international collective announced they would be implementing a new set of policies which would seek to match the same outlines that apply to real-world military action in the online battleground. As more countries begin to arm themselves with increasingly complex weapons of cyberwarfare which can be used for Read More

New documents provided to The Intercept by Edward Snowden highlight the inner workings of ICREACH, a Google-like search engine feature which shares metadata of millions of foreign nationals and US citizens. The NSA has been using this search engine to secretly provide information to two dozen agencies of the US government including the DEA (Drug Read More

With increasing cyber attacks on government organizations, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) needs to wake up to the possibility of cyber warfare, said Boston Globe columnists James G. Stavridis and Dave Weinstein, and this would need clearly defined protocols and a standardized policy. Fortunately, NATO has acknowledged the rising demands of cyber awareness and announced Read More

And Thomas Drake, Mark Klein. Rustle Tice. Earlier this morning, Glenn Greenwald revealed the existence of freshly leaked classified documents in his publication The Intercept which have furthered indicted the NSA in a series of scandals fueled by illegal domestic surveillance on U.S citizens. The hot-off-the-presses leaks go into extensive detail about the existence of Read More

The authors of the original 9/11 Commission report covering the events surrounding the 9/11 attacks inform us that cyber-terrorism is the next big threat to the US. The group has updated the recommendations made by the committee ten years ago, and reassessed whether those recommendations were translated into law or adopted as policy. “The threat Read More

9/11, The PATRIOT Act, Dick Cheney. These are the people, the places, and the events that one normally associates with the beginning of mass surveillance in America, and while to a certain extent you’d be correct, you’d also be missing the mark by about 90 years or so in the longer scope of things. In Read More

This week, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled that any data the government wants to gather off a cellphone must first be approved in full by a warrant before any officer of the law gets the opportunity to track valuable information. In a landmark decision this Wednesday in Miami, Judge Read More

Last Tuesday, PBS’s Frontline premiered the first half of their four hour documentary covering the history of the NSA over the past 15 or so years, the programs that the agency had implemented in the wake of September 11, and the people who had risked their lives to try and tell registered voters in the Read More

As of this writing, the NSA has worked its way into around 100,000 personal computers and mobile devices around the world, a far cry from the 50,000 we initially reported on just a few short months ago. Dubbed “Quantum“, the program lays out an intricate map of each infected machine, which networks it’s connected to, Read More